Providence and Prostitution: Image and Reality for Women in Buddhist Thailand

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Page 13VI Prostitution women arrive daily in Bangkok from the countryside to swell the
huge industrial reserve workforce in the ... Statistics for tourism and prostitution
are also available for the Philippines, which had 200,000 Japanese visitors in
1977; ...

Page 14Such are the offerings of Krung Thep (Bangkok), the mecca of erotica. y The
recent issue of ISIS on tourism and prostitution reports on one marriage bureau: '
Interpart Company in the Federal Republic of Germany is one of the large ...

Page 15The bribery and corruption present in everyday Bangkok life is particularly
rampant in this 'meat market' trade, and the profits are divided amongst the tourist
agencies, hotels, club owners, tour operators, and pimps. The man at the hotel
desk ...